C1773 Shang Tais three proposals (1/2)
Shang Tai was dancing with joy as he held the sailboat model in his hands. He was immersed in his fantasy about the future, the outside world that was filled with endless mysteries, had already summoned him more than once in his dreams. The beautiful dream was about to come true!
Xiao Letian and Zai Chun stared blankly at the Shang Tai who had sunk into his fantasy, unable to say a word. He would laugh at times while wiping away his tears, his brows knitted at times as he sighed, as if he was experiencing an important choice in his heart.
”Master... What happened to Senior Brother? ”Has he gone mad …”
”Perhaps, perhaps my dream has finally come true and I became so excited that I became silly?”
”What kind of ideal is this!?” ”The country is gone, and there's only the world left to play and the cause of a real man is gone, still laughing …” Zai Chun muttered.
”What did you say?” Xiao Letian did not quite catch it, ”You seem to be talking about a man's career? Do you think this is a farce? Do you think that Shang Tai has lost his career? ”
Xiao Letian's tone was not strict at all, but when he sneaked a glance at his master, he realized that Xiao Letian was not angry at all, but actually confused.
”I am not looking down on senior, he has his own difficulties, a small citizen of Ryukyu is the best choice for him, if not, sooner or later she would be annihilated by Shimadzu Family Fu Sang or some other nation! It's already pretty good to have the ending of the day! ”
”This is how difficult it is for small nations to survive. They simply don't have the strength to fight in a storm. To put it bluntly, the depth of their strategy is too shallow. There's no way to cushion the situation …”
”In this world, only an empire as vast as the Great Qing Empire would be able to survive a war like the one between Hong and Yang and still be able to prosper. This is the foundation of a great power!”
”Just give me a little time, just a little chance... Tongzhi will definitely appear in the middle of the competition! ”
Zai Chun clenched his small fists as if he was encouraging himself. The Shang Tai in front of him had become his negative example.
It had to be said that Zai Chun had learnt quite a lot from him. Regarding the development of the future, he had already accepted Xiao Letian's point of view.
The rise of the Western Civilization was unstoppable. In the future, it would be an era where kings were killed and countless small countries' crowns would fall to the ground.
The decision that Shang Tai had made was very correct, because in Zai Chun's eyes, there was no need for Ryukyu, Fu Sang, North Korea, Annan, and some of the smaller nations in Southeast Asia to even exist.
”The Subordinate States system should have collapsed a long time ago. In the future, we have to annex them and exercise effective governance. Since these countries will not be let off anyway, why not let us eat them!”
Xiao Letian was startled, he was simply speechless. Why were the two disciples accepting the same teaching materials, and why were their values so different in the end?
Shang Tai was able to adapt to the development of this era, and even went along with it to gain ten thousand years of benefits for his own clan. But why did Zai Chun become more and more unyielding?
Perhaps it was because the environment from a young age to a young age was too different, the great powers of chauvinism had already invaded the bone marrow.
However, Xiao Letian couldn't say it explicitly. There was something that had entered deep into his bone marrow and changed his flesh through education, but it was difficult to change his bones.
Everyone's lives were up to everyone, and they all chose their own paths. Regarding Shang Tai's ideals, Zai Chun thought that they were abandoning the life as a man, but in Xiao Letian's eyes, in the next hundred years, maybe Shang Tai's reputation would far surpass Zai Chun's.